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  • adjective Relating to fixation.

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fixation +‎ -al

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Examples

  • Results showed that the rate of microsaccades - tiny, jerk-like fixational eye movements - dramatically increased when participants found Waldo.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

  • Therefore the perception, physiology, and computational modeling of fixational eye movements is critical to our understanding of vision in general, and also to the understanding of the neural computations that work to overcome neural adaptation in normal subjects as well as in clinical patients because we are not aware of our fixational eye movements, they can also help us understand the underpinnings of visual awareness

    Clipmarks | Live Clips 2008

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